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ATO eyes SMSF illegal early access

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will continue to tighten controls around early access of SMSF money as it grapples to contain those who access it illegally. The ATO said the growing frequency in accessing super early has forced it to make enforcement ...

Aware Super invests in $1bn venture

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
Aware Super has partnered with European fund manager Equitix and the UK National Wealth Fund (NWF) to invest $1.04 billion (£500m) in a UK battery storage platform. Led by Equitix, the consortium will fund Eelpower Energy to build, own, and operate ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

Insignia Financial back in the black

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... execution." Hartley said the group plans to continue reducing costs, further simplify the Master Trust business, continue the roll-out of MLC Retirement Boost, relaunch the MLC brand, and develop ways to further use AI across the business. Insignia did ...

Funds SA pushes for efficiencies with AI targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Targets around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be baked into the performance plans of every staff member at the centralised investment manager. Funds SA is rolling out an AI strategy, aimed at boosting efficiencies and productivity within ...

AMP Super rolls out cashback feature

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
The new feature will allow AMP Super members to boost their retirement savings by earning cashbacks, which could grow their balances by as much as $100,000 when they retire. Despite the significant benefits of compounding, AMP found the concept is poorly ...

ASIC to review RG97 to boost property supply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
ASIC is reviewing the need for superannuation funds to include stamp duty payments in fee disclosures in a bid to boost their investment in property. Super funds have long held concerns that obligations under Regulatory Guide 97: Disclosing fees and ...

Former Kerr Neilson staffer pleads guilty to insider trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
A former employee of Kerr Neilson's family office, Rodney Forrest, has been charged with insider trading and procuring others to trade Platinum Asset Management shares. At Sydney's Local Court yesterday, Forrest pleaded guilty to two counts ...

Pinnacle backs private markets managed accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Pinnacle Investment Management has made a strategic investment in FinCap Group to support the launch of a private assets managed accounts platform for Australian financial advisers and their wholesale clients. The platform is designed to offer wholesale ...

North inflows jump 60%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
AMP's North platform saw net inflows jump 60% in the last financial year, with $1.7 billion of client money reported in the June quarter. Total assets under management (AUM) for the platforms business, which includes Asgard platform products issued ...